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Bezig met laden... In the Valley of the Sundoor Andy Davidson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Shocking and captivating in its best moments, this book overall failed to hold my interest. Beyond the novelty of blending of Horror and sun-drenched Western, there wasn't much else to recommend it. I kept feeling this story should be better than it was, but it never really got to that point. ( ) A disclaimer - I don't read horror, and only picked this up because I met the author at an event. That being said, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed In the Valley of the Sun. The author has a nearly poetic style of writing. His descriptions of the west Texas landscape were beautifully done. The story has what I imagine is obligatory gore in horror, but what kept me reading were the characters. I cared what was happening, or about to happen, or what I feared would happen, to them. The build-up to the nail-biting ending created genuine tension. I hope to see more novels from this talented author. A well written, often graphic, vampire-ish story. These aren't your typical vampires and the cross of a serial killer and vampire was an interesting twist but it wasn't fully realized. However, I was left feeling quite sad after finishing. Everyone important loses something of value. For most, it's their lives. I still think the book would have been a compelling read with a couple of redemptive elements. I know that good doesn't always triumph over evil, but a little good surviving would have been nice (besides the characters that live). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice. One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster. Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn't make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes weak and bloodied in his cabover camper the next morning-with no sign of a girl, no memory of the night before. Annabelle Gaskin spies the camper parked behind her motel and offers the cowboy a few odd jobs to pay his board. Travis takes her up on the offer, if only to buy time, to lay low and heal. By day, he mends the old motel, insinuating himself into the lives of Annabelle and her ten-year-old son. By night, in the cave of his camper, he fights an unspeakable hunger. Before long, Annabelle and her boy come to realize that this strange cowboy is not what he seems. Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, he'll have to decide how far into the darkness he'll go for the sake of justice. When these lives converge on a dusty autumn night, an old evil will find new life-and new blood"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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